The Drop: New PlayStation Releases for January 7th, 2014

Some days, you wake up in a warm bed — perhaps next to a loved one — and you start the day fresh, with the sweetness of a half-remembered dream lingering behind your eyes. Other times, you wake up on a twisted island of dark horrors with a fast-depleting hunger meter and a growing beard. On those days, you’re likely playing Don’t Starve, which launches on PS4 this week!

That’s right friends, the fan-favorite survival game finds a new home on PS4. Don’t Starve is an uncompromising, randomly-generated survival game where you must help the Gentleman Scientist Wilson endure the harsh (likely demonic) environment for as long as possible. Gather food, craft tools, construct shelter, and hunt unlikely foes with a brutal challenge at every footfall.

If vigorous survival isn’t your cup of tea, there’s more coming to the world of PlayStation! But since we’re emerging from our light holiday lineup, we took a “Drop Lite” approach today. See below for a complete list of games hitting PlayStation this week, and enjoy!

Nice, 1st PS4/PSplus Member download in 2014. Hope this will be a continued pattern from here on out. for PS4 owners. Thanks again for sharing. Looking forward to Don’t Starve on the 7th. (BTW Is this also Remote Play compatible for my PSVita?)

Any clue when Warthunder will release on the US store? EU has had it since 11/22. I heard US was supposed to have it then too, but there was some sort of snag in getting it released here. Game looks like a blast.

what a joke!!! I pay £350 on a ps4, and then pay 3 months subscription for ps+, and what do we get??? 2 games contrast and resogun, that by anyones calculations should of gone onto the next month already, Ps4 29th Nov. Now 5/01/2014. So how is that having a new game every month!!?? Get your act together!!!!

Kudos to the Sony team for doing so much to support indie games; it’s the main reason I bought the system. It’s the independent games that are delving into new ways of playing and keeping the whole scene fresh in the wake of the FPS market saturation. Keep them coming!

Also, Ryan et al: I think addressing people’s comments like this and answering their quick questions is a great business practice and it’s apprecited! So, thanks!

You entitled individuals need to get over yourselves. Instant Game Collection does not mean the same thing as “we will never have to pay for games again”, so quit acting like it. PSN+ became the primary source of paying for online services for our console, hence all the improvements across the entire network. You people need to quit acting like you’re 5 years old, get a real job, and start actually paying for things you want. Stop expecting everything to be handed to you.

As far as the lack of PS4 games being released…indie games are the only ones being made available due to their development times. Bigger games take a lot more effort and a lot more time. Nevermind the fact that this is the same thing that happens >EVERY< time a new console is released…

My only problem with Indies for consoles is that they rarely get updates or patches. Don’t Starve got a huge update months ago, pretty sure this “Console Edition” has it, but where do you go from there? I know more caves will be added to the game. Will this be part of the console edition with a patch (later)? It is like with Guacamole. Super overpriced for console. Heck, Steam had the game (Gold Edtition) for 3 bucks

boomstick, I suggest upgrading your internet or get rid of wireless. I have yet to have a single issue with the PS4’s connection, excluding problems that are entirely out of Sony’s hands (namely games disconnecting/crashing due to piss poor programming on EA/DICE’s end).

And brilliant method of making your case even more unsubstantiated chief. Take a biased sample to make a claim over the situation in general. Makes perfect sense…if you wish to ignore the fact that forums are ALWAYS the place people go for complaints. You have no reason to go to a forum if your are not experiencing any problems. The reason for your complaints makes a lot more sense when you making asinine statements like that one.

Um, I don’t know about you guys but I haven’t paid for a game in a long time. I am so behind on great games like Dragon’s Dogma, Amaleur, Hotline Miami, Rayman, Uncharted, Gravity Rush, Hitman, Resident Evil games, and SIne Mora. I just can’t keep up. Now there’s Bioshock and DMC on the way. If you got PS+ for PS4 then it’s not going to be as great of a deal as opposed to having all systems. PS4 just dropped and it’s numbered in games. I just finished Soul Sacrifice such a great game that I will make sure to drop money on SoulSacrifice Delta. Resogun was so much fun for me. Waiting on Dark souls 2 and FFX.

Are people really expecting full AAA titles to come to ps plus for ps4 this soon? The thing hasn’t even been out for 2 months yet! And even with it only being out 2 months we’ve already received Contrast, Resogun, Don’t Starve this Tuesday and soon Drive Club. I just don’t see how people can complain about the offerings.

Death8u4u: nice name (sarcasm). Your argument is false too, there have been no improvements and also, there can’t be any improvements that justify paying for Plus as a mandatory suscription in order to access multiplayer features. Games are never played themselves using Sony servers, they are using each company’s servers or p2p (peer to peer connection, which means both players act as servers to each other). I doubt that, excluding games made by Sony, any games use Sony servers for their matchmaking which is just tackling groups of playing together before they actually start playing. So, paying for Plus will never improve online lag, latency or delay, Sony has nothing to do with those things so don’t be a false know-it-all prick.

Secondly, I’ve hardly seen improvement when syncing trophies to Sony servers. It’s more normal than it was on PS3 but that’s because it took like… 5 minutes to sync 500 trophies with the Sony servers on PS3, still takes 30 seconds or so here. Mediocre improvement, cloud storage was already there and from what I remember the bandwidth you’d enjoy on it was fine on PS3 and Plus was optional.

spookcuz , 9 times out of 10 the people complaining about not getting free things are either incapable of getting a job due to being too young still or they’re too ill-equipped to manage their finances effectively enough to afford what they want. Then you get people like boomstick that simply feel entitled to everything when they offer pocket change in exchange.

I’m very very comfortable saying and believing that I’ve spent more on sony games, devices etc.. in the past few years, than half of the people who post on this blog COMBINED.

Just because you don’t have any issues doesn’t mean they don’t exist (PSN).

Just because there are people who only post on forums to complain, doesn’t change that there are many many gamers who post on forums for other reasons (advice, discoveries, community interaction, etc… etc… etc…)

Also, there would be no point in the people who do post problems, posting them if they didn’t exist.

So because you think that people go on forums to complain, their complaints are invalid?

I’m sorry to see the only way you feel you are able to “prove” your point is to resort to name calling and insults, instead of providing actual proof that you are right. Not too surprising though, since there is no proof that you are, but much evidence that you’re wrong. (about PSN stability globally)

#38 / @spookcuz: Usually probably just drunk venting, or personality of an impatient child.

I would like to echo @edreedfan20 / #15 about War Thunder though. What is up with holding out on that game? From all accounts, it’s pretty awesome. I hope the reason it’s not been released in the US is not that they’re hoarding it for a dry spell or something?

You make a great point about forums being the place people turn to report problems. Which is why it’s important to also report a lack of problems (when/if that is the case) so that nobody gets the wrong idea. Well said, indeed.

(Again, folks, it’s not that I have a problem with legit complaints. But if we’re being fair, no one should have a problem with legit praise.)

@pablofsi08: I don’t think it’s accurate to say no improvements have been made. Besides, Plus is and will continue to be mandatory for online play on PS4 regardless of how anyone feels about it. Your list of choices is as follows: a) get Plus, or b) don’t play online (except for games that are already free-to-play).

You do make some good points about the fact that Sony’s servers often have nothing to do with a given game’s online component.

@boomstickbhg: No, if I understand him correctly he’s saying that just because complaints exist on forums doesn’t mean you can draw conclusions from them. The valid ones DO deserve our attention, but we can’t rule out the possibility that the problems have other causes without further evidence.

Oh for the record I am somewhat annoyed with PS4 in general since both Drive Club (the only proper IGC game we had coming) and Watchdogs were suddenly delayed very shortly before the PS4 launch. (WD was my only launch title at the time)

So I can’t claim a totally unbiased opinion, heck I thought that Plus was better before the IGC existed.

@ThumbsOfSteel74

Even if that’s what he meant, it’s not what he said.

Instead of arguing actual points, he’s resorting now to name calling and insults so I won’t be taking anything he says on here seriously going forward. Guess he’s one of those “troll” people I often hear about.

Do problems get exaggerated on Forums? Sure they do. But they still exist.

Besides of the approx. 20 people I know, in real life, not some online form, who have PS4s, ALL OF THEM have been having a lot of trouble with the PSN for the latter half of December onward.

My options? or for those that are considering it and you know, haven’t purchased it yet? I suppose you can see that yellow cross at the top right of my ID. I’ve been a PS Plus suscriptor since I got PS3 in 2011.

If there have been improvements that actually justify paying for a suscription and it isn’t a move to suck up as much more money from everyone’s pockets as possible, as good as free games are, name them accurately, otherwise don’t name that as an argument without any basis while calling others names because they are talking about stuff without writing text here explaining the reasons why they say so.

If you are gonna assume there are arguments behind your reasonings people that are obvious you should assume there are in other people’s opinions which you might be overlooking.